Packaging

We receive a lot of compliments on our packaging and the safe delivery of our plants. We have invested a lot of time in perfecting our packing system, and while we're always looking for ways to improve, we rarely have any problems with damage in transport.

The plants we sell online are exactly the same as you would buy if you visited the nursery - we don't grow small plants or plug-plants for mail order.

The vast majority of our plants are packed, in their pots, in plastic clam packs. These packs are made from recycled plastic (PET1) which would otherwise have been burned or buried and can be recycled again in council curb-side recycling schemes across the country. Occasionally we also use newspaper to wrap single plants. 

We have different sizes of cardboard boxes made for us (from recycled board), which are designed to take various multiples of the plastic packaging, to allow for all sizes of order. Any space remaining in the box is filled with crunched newspaper.

Our parcels are sent via a 24 hour, overnight courier and usually arrive the day after the courier collects them from the nursery. However, the plastic clam packs enable the plants to survive much longer than this, in case of any delay.

See below for photographs of typical plants being packed. The type of clam packs we use depends on how much foliage is on the plants.

The packing room: